Li Qi's plan had finally surfaced.
This war to exterminate demons had merely been his means, not his end.
All of Qi Palace, the help of the great bodhisattvas—it had all been for this very moment.
What was Li Qi's objective?
It had just been said: he hoped to create a world beyond the interference of the demonic path, to free all living beings from the demonic path's control, so that from this day onward, every cultivator would no longer have a "Dao enemy."
And to accomplish that, he needed an ultimate weapon designed specifically for the demonic path: the former Formless Heaven.
The demonic beings perished, thereby eliminating Li Qi's interference. The karmic burden of those actions belonged to the Demon Prince—but where did their true spirits go?
Naturally, they had all been silently gathered into the Demon Prince.
And using those deaths, the Demon Prince had forged another thing—the Formless Heaven that Buddha had entrusted to him at the very end.
Formless Heaven was "nothing at all," something utterly opposite to He-Who-Transforms-Himself-at-Will Heaven.
Thus, when all stillness, extinction, and emptiness had been encompassed within it, Formless Heaven had slowly begun to recover.
Borrowing the "nothingness" brought about by several battles between second-rank beings, it had finally regained a portion of Formless Heaven's might.
As enemies, the heavenly demons and Buddha had each created one: one had created He-Who-Transforms-Himself-at-Will Heaven, while the other had created Formless Heaven.
Now, He-Who-Transforms-Himself-at-Will Heaven was in Witch Xian's hands, while Formless Heaven had been given to the Demon Prince before Buddha's final extinction.
The Demon Prince... had received the same treatment as Shariputra.
When Shariputra entered extinction, the World Honored One Tathagata had declared that, in the distant future, he would become Vajra Light Tathagata.
And the Demon Prince would become a future